IP: Re: Douglas Adams, Author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Dies at 49

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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>Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 10:41:12 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: Mike Godwin <mnemonic@well.com>
>Subject: Re: IP: Douglas Adams, Author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the
>  Galaxy,"   Dies at 49
>
>I interviewed him for my college newspaper back in 1982. He was perfectly
>pleasant and entertaining as we sat drinking tequila sunrises in the bar
>in Austin's Driskill Hotel. He had a tendency to start sentences
>and not finish them before beginning a wholly new sentence fuelled by a
>different thought. (It was very hard to transcribe his remarks for this
>reason.)
>
>I was thinking of Adams just yesterday as I was reading Michael Chabon's
>THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER AND CLAY. There's a point at which
>Kavalier and his mentor think they have found the golem of Prague, secreted
>in an apartment building in apartment number ... 42.
>
>
>
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